Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recently finalized hospice payment rule. The concern, however, is that hospices lack the financial support and incentives needed to bridge barriers, with reimbursement a main point of contention, he said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to extend the value-based insurance design (VBID) model through 2030: patients’ social needs, health equity and improved care coordination. Originally set to run between 2021 and 2024, CMS indicated yesterday that it would invest five additional years in the demonstration.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the value-based insurance design demonstration for calendar years 2025 to 2030, including the hospice component. The hospice component of VBID, also called the MA carve-in, launched in 2021 and was originally slated to complete after four years. It makes sense.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

The payment model is designed to improve quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing care coordination, behavioral health and functional needs. A map of approved GUIDE organizations as of July 2024, based on CMS data. The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Over time, Medicare Advantage plans will likely have a greater presence as hospice payers, and now is the time for providers to build relationships those organizations. Originally slated to end in 2024, CMS recently extended the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) to 2023. million beneficiaries.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Being that full-service solution requires the incorporation of a lot of different kinds of care along the continuum, including longitudinal home-based primary care. About 12% of the 2.1

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

A new primary care-focused payment model demonstration could create new partnership opportunities for hospice and palliative care providers. The agency intends for the 10-year demo to expand and enhance care management and care coordination.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

Primary care company CareConnectMD is building a network of hospice providers following a $25 million investment round last month. A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The 2024 final hospice payment rule included a modest payment increase for general inpatient care (GIP) at a time when regulators are zeroing in on increased utilization and longer stays. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included in the rule a 1.031% increase to hospice GIP services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. Operators in the space anticipated diverse challenges heading into 2024.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

This would allow ACOs with a history of generating savings to make greater investments in services, improving care coordination, hiring staff and building out health care infrastructure. This proposed policy dovetails with the Advance Investment Payment (AIP) component of CMS’ ACO Primary Care FLEX payment model demonstration.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The analysis spanned various clinical trials and studies published between 2014 and 2024 that examined telehealth use within palliative care settings across the world. Telehealth in rural and underserved areas holds significant promise for enhancing access to palliative care, improving quality of life and managing symptoms.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Bristol Hospice has been a prolific buyer in the hospice M&A market, but the company is now leaning heavily into its de novo strategy. The Salt Lake City-based hospice provider opened double-digit numbers of de novos last year with expectations of doing the same in 2024. Would you agree with that?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Carelon is the health care services brand of the insurance company Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), previously known as Anthem. CareMore, also an Elevance subsidiary, provides advanced primary care to more than 100,000 Medicare Advantage and Medicaid patients in nine states, as well as offering palliative care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These evolving regulations have hospices concerned that a lack of virtual access to their services could have significant impacts on quality and health disparities. Weve inherited a kind of accelerated movement toward a new normal during the pandemic, Fratkin told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As hospice providers build out a larger continuum of health care services, some are taking a close look at the primary care space. The term “upstream” has become a watchword in hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Participating operators may also receive payment for respite care. The eight-year demonstration model will begin July 1, 2024. “It’s

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. What would you say are the biggest opportunities that you see for 2024?

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

In this interview, Hospice News sits down with Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare , to talk ab out the most pressing challenge facing providers in today’s hospice landscape — staffing. Hospice News: What life and career experiences do you most draw from in your role today?

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Ensuring staff are educated around revisions to hospice survey processes will be key to navigating ongoing regulatory changes in the industry.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. The discussion took place on February 29, 2024 during PCN Conference in Tampa.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The good news is that the financial case for comprehensive dementia care is changing thanks to a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) alternative payment model (APM) called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. You cannot be in hospice. The intermediary care. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

Research trends can help hospice providers improve their understanding around the impacts of their services and where quality gaps may exist. Research on global and national levels can play an important role in the ability to understand issues around hospice utilization and disparities.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Now we can talk later on about the different models of paying for care coordination. We did not want them to already have seen home palliative care. Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospice care. And then we also didn’t give them access to palliative care social work on the stepdarmouse. The what ifs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Katie: Help pay for them to go and do the evaluations and provide the resources and care coordination as part of the healthcare team. My one would be on the acute care space. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Carmen: Reimburse them too.

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